The MiLW Blog

Annarbor.com is reporting on the plight of a young man who’s fighting the lasting consequences of a sex offense – having sex with his 15-year-old girlfriend when he was himself a teenager. An attorney for a young man accused of ...

Interesting opinion piece by the Detroit Free Press’s Brian Dickerson: It’s a curious fact that no currently serving U.S. Supreme Court justice has ever run for political office. Americans who’d overlooked that historical anomaly got a powerful reminder last week ...

The saga comes to a close. We’ve been watching this carefully (because it’s too good a story not to pay attention). From here on out, the City of Taylor will need only one chair for the city attorney. This from ...

“When a government entity speaks only and continually about posting a religious document, treats the religious document as separate and distinct from the history-related documents, and focuses principally on ensuring that the religious document is posted in a way that ...

The Detroit Free Press reports that the vacant MGM Grand Casino complex in downtown Detroit could be home to, or a part of, Wayne County’s courtroom operations. The agreement, which names the MGM Grand as a location for the courts, said ...

Clerks of the 46th District Court in Southfield will be able to return nonconforming documents to debt-collection and garnishment litigants under a Michigan Supreme Court pilot project. Administrative Order (AO) No. 2009-7, adopted on 4-3 vote, permits a six-month test ...

The U.S. Supreme Court struck down corporate and union campaign finance restrictions in a 5-4 decision today. In doing so, the court overturned the 20-year-old Austin v. Michigan Chamber of Commerce , 494 U.S. 652 (1990). It also threw a ...

Wayne County Circuit Court Judge David Groner told former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick today that he has to pay $319,000 of his $1 million restitution to the City of Detroit in the next 90 days. He must pay $79,000 of that ...

The non-profit Areivim Philanthropic Group Inc. is suing the estate of William Davidson, former owner of the Detroit Pistons. Areivim claims that Davidson was one of 13 donors who in 2006 pledged to contribute $5 million to the group “to establish a ...